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The vulnerability of surface ships to aerial attack was established decisively during the Second World War, when aircraft rendered even ...

The U.S. Navy’s current challenges are often described as discrete problems, such as shipbuilding delays, maintenance backlogs, operational strain, and ...

For more than a decade, Americans have been assured—ritually and relentlessly—that the United States fields the most powerful military in ...

Escalation talk surrounding a potential U.S. bombing campaign against Iran rests on a familiar premise: that sufficient military bombardment can ...

Silicon Valley has recently discovered defense as a growth market. Venture-backed firms now promise to “disrupt” military procurement, accelerate weapons ...

For much of the post-WWII era, the United States maintained a set of institutional boundaries designed to govern the use ...

American militarism is usually discussed as something that happens “over there.” Foreign wars, overseas bases, expeditionary forces, and interventions conducted ...

The Philippines is often described as a country afflicted by a succession of internal conflicts: colonial rebellion, communist insurgency, separatist ...

Armed conflict across Africa is routinely explained as the aftermath of colonialism, the meddling of external powers, the spread of ...

For thirty years, American foreign policy has been guided by a ghost. It went by different names like primacy, unipolarity, ...